Festivals & Contests

Contest/Festival: 10 Indie, Student Game Competitions: A Shortlist for Your Submissions

Summary: http://gamecareerguide.com/features/476/10_indie_student_game_.php

For more information: http://http://gamecareerguide.com/features/476/10_indie_student_game_.php

Contest/Festival: 12th Annual LA Shorts Fest

Summary: Location: Laemmle Sunset 5 Theaters

The largest short film festival premieres the best shorts in the world. This is where entertainment professionals and trend setters discover hot new talent.

For more information: http://www.lashortsfest.com

Contest/Festival: Dining Out For Life 2008

Summary: On Thursday, March 27th, thousands will fill their plates to fight AIDS.

Over 200 restaurants from Whistler to White Rock and throughout the valley
will join the fight against AIDS by donating 25 percent of their food revenue
from meals sold during this important event. All money raised will go directly
to Friends For Life and A Loving Spoonful; Lower Mainland charities that
provide support to local people living with HIV/AIDS. Last year, the event
raised almost $180 000 for these organizations.

Contest/Festival: Display your work at FLAVOUR!

Summary: Evoke Events Ltd. is having their launch event called Flavour at the Croatian Cultural Center.

Evoke Events mandate is to showcase BC artists to promote local talent. At this event, there will be a multitude of artists working in all media exhibiting to a crowd of 1000+ attendees. Visit their website at www.evoke-events.com for further information.

If you would like to take advantage of this opportunity to show Vancouver your work, e-mail some samples or links to online galleries or clips where possible.
Administration fee is $15 for students who wish to exhibit.

We?re looking for artwork to be displayed on projectors as well as physically put up in the space. This could include photography, digital imagery and short films.

In regards to short films, those best suited for the environment would be silent films or visual creations which do not require sound. These films would be projected on the wall during the art show or later in the evening set to music.

Please e-mail any questions to: moe@evoke-events.com

For more information: http://

Contest/Festival: ENGLAND

Summary: Presented with The Cultch
A site-specific theatrical tour through spaces and across borders. From an art gallery to a jam factory, from London to Osaka, from a hospital bed to a hotel room, your tour is led by the incomparable Tim Crouch ( my arm, an oak tree ).
Jan 28-31, 7 & 9pm
Vancouver Art Gallery Tickets $26/22 Ticketmaster

Contest/Festival: Fiddlers Retreat

Summary: Theresa Bourke, Fiddlers Retreat course director (Irish music and culture school in the heart of Co. Tipperary, Ireland)

She is a traditional Irish music teacher/performer and completed the Masters Degree in Traditional Irish music performance at The University of Limerick in 2001 after which she spent a few years playing fiddle on a Lord of the Dance world tour.

Now, she organizes week long courses in Irish music and culture for visiting musicians. The week is a carefully chosen itinerary to show musicians a real and authentic insight into Ireland, its music, people, language, dancing, cooking and its rich historic culture.

For more information: http://www.fiddlersretreat.com

Contest/Festival: First Nations Video Game Development Team

Summary: What if an entirely First Nations video game development team set out to create an indigenous game? Would we co-opt game development technology to rework stereotypes in commercial video games? Would we come up with unique gameplay and/or a development process rooted in our cultures? A doctoral research project out of Simon Fraser University's School of Interactive Arts & Technology in Vancouver, British Columbia is searching for motivated First Nations people who can work well in a community-oriented team and dream up and create a video game based in Anishinaabe and Cree culture (just to see them go at it about if it's Wendigo, Weendigo, Wiindigo, Witiko, Wetiko, Wihtiko, you get the idea). You don't have to be Nish or Cree to get involved, but the game content will be!

Artists ? We definitely need a lot of artists who are familiar with 3D modeling programs such as Maya or Blender (hurray for free stuff) as well as animation. It'd be nice to find people who can quickly sketch out their ideas and then also make it happen. We'll need an environment artist, character artist, and object artist who can vibe together stylistically. And if you can do it all, wow, let's give it a shot.

Programmers ? If you don't know game programming, that's okay, but expect to learn it fast. We haven't decided exactly which game engine to use since we'd rather wait until we have the team together, but we're looking on the cheaper end with independent game development tools like Microsoft XNA. We'd like to find people who can handle interface, gameplay, physics, and artificial intelligence programming (although not all necessarily in one person).

Sound ? Audio often gets neglected in small projects, but not this one. We want dedicated sound designers interested in everything from special effects to backdrop music. Games require skills in making music that can transition smoothly from one location or player state to another.

Voiceover Actors ? If you know Cree or Anishinaabe (any dialect), that's a definite plus. But if you're also a fun Blackfoot or Mi'kmaq or Squamish or Mohawk or M?tis or anyone else who is comfortable with playing out a character for audio recordings and can bring energy, we want you!

Cultural Advisors ? Although of course we have our family and friends in mind, we're also looking for people who hold knowledge in traditions, language, and stories to make sure we're wholly representing Anishinaabe and Cree culture, understanding the similarities and differences between the two. And why both cultures?
Because the producers and lead designers are a married Anishinaabe game writer and a Cree filmmaker who share traditions, stories, and words and find the places they meet.

If you're still reading, then you must still be interested. Well, what kind of game is it? Does it have a genre or even a platform yet? All we know is, it has to be cool enough that we as gamers want to play it. So let's find out together. We want a strong concept and full team by July.

The first stage of development will kick off by September and we'll go through a lot of creation and revision over about six months to get a solid prototype launched. Right now, there's no money. Surprise? If you're willing to join this out of the love for it, please get in touch. If we get a team together who wants to find funding, we'll have a better chance with all of us. If you're a student, we can help you get internship/practicum credits. We're in Vancouver, BC, but you don't have to be. We have the amazing Internet now.

If you want to be part of this, hit us up at beth.a.dillon@gmail.com.

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Beth Aileen Dillon
PhD Student, Simon Fraser University
School of Interactive Arts and Technology Research Assistant, Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace http://www.bethadillon.com

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Contest/Festival: INTERNATIONAL FILM STUDENT COMPETITIONS

Summary: The Film AWAKENED is the April winner of TheReelshow.biz monthly grad film competition.
Congratulations to Dale Stewart and his team.
Dale is a 2007 graduate of South Seas Film and Television School, New Zealand.


A new competition will start from the end of May 2008.

All films uploaded, graduation and portfolio/work in progress, will be eligible for entry*.
The six films with the most hits at the end of the month will go through to the final.
TheReelshow.biz membership will decide the winner.
The winner will receive US$150 as a cash prize and automatic entry into TheReelshow.biz International Film Student Festival 2009.

Details of a new quarterly Graduation Film Competition that is open to 2007 and 2008 graduates only will follow very soon.

*Films that have won previous Reelshow.biz Grad Film monthly competitions cannot enter.

The Reelshow.biz Inc.
THE BEST STUDENT FILMS FROM AROUND THE WORLD
www.thereelshow.biz

For more information: http://www.thereelshow.biz/

Contest/Festival: Northwestern Technology Conference for Undergraduates

Summary: NTCU - May 2 - 4, 2007 SFU Burnaby

Interested in the newest technology? Want to get industry contacts? Excited by cool gadgets?

Then attend NTCU, Canada's newest technology conference specifically organized for undergraduates by undergraduates!

For more information see: www.ntcu.ca

For more information: http://www.ntcu.ca

Contest/Festival: Ottawa International Animation Festival

For more information: http://ottawa.awn.com/

Contest/Festival: PuSh International Performing Arts Festival

Summary: One of Vancouver's signature events. Over 20 days each winter, the PuSh Festival presents groundbreaking work in live performing arts: theatre, dance music, and hybrid forms of performance.

For more information: http://pushfestival.ca

Contest/Festival: Siren

Summary: A whirling, spinning spectacle of mechanical movement, electronic sound and light, where the audience moves freely though the forest of rotating tripods and experience different sonic and visual perspectives on the work.
Jan 20-24 7 & 8:30pm, Jan 24 4pm
Roundhouse
Tickets $20 Tickets Tonight

Contest/Festival: The Vancouver Art Gallery Presents: KRAZYTALK! INDUSTRY GIANTS

Summary: A SPEAKER SERIES IN CONJUNCTION WITH KRAZY! THE DELIRIOUS WORLD OF ANIME + COMICS + VIDEO GAMES + ART

MAY 15 - JUNE 4, 2008

MAY 15 - 7pm COMIC ARTIST ART SPIEGELMAN

Centre for Digital Media, Great Northern Way Campus, 577 Great Northern Way

A major figure in the underground comics movement of the 1960s and 70s, Spiegelman is best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning comic memoir Maus, which retraces his parents? story as Holocaust survivors. Formerly named ?one of the 100 Most Influential People of our times? by Time Magazine, he continues to be a political activist and a public champion for innovative comic book work.

MAY 23 - 7pm MICHAEL AMZALAG AND MATHIAS AUGUSTYNIAK, M/M (PARIS)

Vancouver Art Gallery, 750 Hornby Street

Graphic designers Michael Amzalag and Mathias Augustyniak founded M/M Paris in 1992. Their work has been shown in art galleries and museums all over the world, most recently in the 2008 exhibition Vision Tenace at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Their projects are created in partnership with such diverse designers and artists as Stella MacCartney, Yohji Yamamoto, Douglas Gordon and Bjork.

MAY 29 - 7pm ANIMATED FILM MAKER TIM JOHNSON

Centre for Digital Media, Great Northern Way Campus, 577 Great Northern Way

DreamWorks Animation film director Tim Johnson directed the 2006 computer animated comedy Over the Hedge, starring the voices of Bruce Willis and Gary Shandling. His earlier projects include the animated action adventure Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas and DreamWorks? first computer animated comedy, Antz, as well as the infamous segment Homer3 from The Simpsons Halloween special Treehouse of Horror VI.

JUNE 4 - 7pm COMPUTER GAME DESIGNER WILL WRIGHT

Centre for Digital Media, Great Northern Way Campus, 577 Great Northern Way

Widely acknowledged as one of the most important innovators in gaming, technology and entertainment, Will Wright is the designer of the groundbreaking computer simulation games
SimCity and The Sims, the bestselling computer game of all time. Wright has received two lifetime achievement awards from Game Developers Choice Awards and was inducted into the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences Hall of Fame in 2002.

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TICKETS: 604.662.4717

SERIES OF FOUR PRESENTATIONS: ADULTS $85, Members and seniors $68, students $34.

INDIVIDUAL PRESENTATIONS: ADULTS $25, Members and seniors $20, students $10.

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Contest/Festival: Whistler Film Festival Gala and Auction

Summary: Location: The Sutton Place Hotel.

Playing host to up to 250 of B.C?s most influential business leaders and media luminaries, guests of the Gala will enjoy a specially themed evening that includes a gourmet feast complemented by fine wine and fabulous entertainment, as well as a silent and live auction featuring priceless items and experiences, and a grand prize raffle. Proceeds raised from the event will support the Whistler Film Festival Society?s annual programs for B.C. filmmakers and aspiring youth.

Tickets are $200 per person or $2,000 per table of 10, and tax receipts will be issued for the maximum allowable amount. Tickets and tables can be purchased online at http://www.whistlerfilmfestival.com/gala/, by phoning 604-649-1568 or by emailing galatickets@whistlerfilmfestival.com

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